Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years later, Illinois organization Democrats began to worry again. Their new fear: that Stevenson might not be their candidate. The governor, whose deepest interest has long been foreign affairs (he served with the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly and as a special assistant to the Secretary of State under Byrnes and Stettinius), seemed undecided whether he would seek a second term. The party leaders, expecting a strong Republican vote for President, were sure they would need him to win the statehouse. He has been one of the best governors in Illinois history, has slashed the Green...
...floor, a West Virginia mining engineer named Neil Robinson offered to slash production costs from $14 to $11 a ton-if given a free hand. The skeptical Belgians agreed; Robinson has since set to work injecting U.S. zest and know-how into one of Belgium's oldest and deepest pits-the Good Hope Mine. If he succeeds, and the chances are that he will, MSA hopes to use the "Robinson Experiment" to spark similar coalface production drives throughout Western Europe...
...satisfy a grudge against his brother, who has already spent 20 years in the château's deepest dungeons, Laughton plans to force the brother's daughter (Sally Forrest) into marriage with a hand-picked blackguard (Richard Stapley) whom he has tricked into captivity. He introduces the couple ceremoniously, and when they begin to bicker, he gloats: "They've begun by disliking each other. Hatred will come later...
...such dependable sources as the National Geographic and the Illustrated London News. Like all true poets, she is an armchair explorer, her imagination serving as an inner eye. But anyone looking for soulful murk will not find it here. She does not flaunt her secret suffering: "The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence but restraint...
Overstuffed Iceland. Gallery confides that Iceland wasn't nearly so cold as everybody imagined, but at the time he had no inclination to dispel any illusions. Only the deepest snowdrifts were photographed. That softened the supply officers back in Washington, who, at the whisper of the word "Iceland," scrupulously filled requisitions for pianos, bowling alleys and overstuffed sofas...